Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Weng-Tein Gi; Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani; Omid Shirvani Samani; Elham Kayvanpour; Esther Herpel; Rawa Arif; Johannes Riffel; Derliz Mereles; Hugo A Katus; Benjamin Meder

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.072

Cardiac Myxoma in a Patient With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

JACC Case Rep. 2020 Feb 12;2(3):378-383. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2019.11.072. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Authors

Weng-Tein Gi^{1

2}, Farbod Sedaghat-Hamedani^{1

2}, Omid Shirvani Samani^{1

2}, Elham Kayvanpour^{1

2}, Esther Herpel³, Rawa Arif⁴, Johannes Riffel^{1

2}, Derliz Mereles^{1

2}, Hugo A Katus^{1

2}, Benjamin Meder^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine III, Institute for Cardiomyopathy, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
² German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Heidelberg/Mannheim, Germany.
³ Institute of Pathology Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁵ Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Abstract

We report a rare case of concomitant hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac myxoma without LEOPARD syndrome. Additionally, 6 similar cases were systemically reviewed, and the characteristics of this first-ever studied patient group were summarized. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.).

Keywords: ECG, electrocardiogram; FO, fossa ovalis; HCM, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; LEOPARD syndrome; LGE, late gadolinium enhancement; LVOT, left ventricular outflow tract; NT-proBNP, N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide; SCD, sudden cardiac death; cardiac myxoma; echocardiography; hs-cTnT, high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; imaging.

Publication types

Case Reports